“That orange man is scary! I don’t want him to be the boss of us! He’s mean.”
Letter: Contact legislators to support ERA
“I feel adding the ERA will protect all Americans from discrimination and offer equal protection under the law regardless of gender.”
Set in Stone?
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Mobile Society
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: Make voices heard on climate emergency
“This is an emergency — we should act like it!”
Letter: City Council needs to fight for climate action
“Council had the courage to fight the state over the election process. Let’s hope they find the courage to choose to fight over this life-and-death climate emergency.”
Letter: A big mistake to close wheelchair clinic
“If a patient or client has a poor-fitting wheelchair and/or poor seating, it contributes to an endless cascade of treatments, suffering and hospitalizations instead of patient progress.”
Letter: Wheelchair clinic’s closure will be devastating
“The clinic serves young children, adolescents and adults with conditions including spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida and cerebral palsy. … A perfect fit is necessary — not just for comfort — but to prevent potentially life-threatening pressure sores.”
Letter: Grateful to help animals through Brother Wolf
“We choose to support Brother Wolf because of the value it brings to our community and the animals’ lives it saves.”
A Variety of A Tax
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: Share prevention info, breakthroughs on HIV and hep C
“Younger members of our communities are vulnerable when not provided enough knowledge to avoid getting this easily preventable viral infection and not to become a continuous cycle of new generations with HIV in decades to come.”
Snap Judgement
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: Smith offers push for occupancy tax changes
“Once in the Senate, I will push to change this so that the city and county can control this tax. We need more funding for infrastructure and services!”
Letter: Thanks for highlighting needs of women vets
“Thank you to letter writer Betty Sharpless for making this vet aware of the plight of women vets in our state and area and of the Aura Home Women Vets nonprofit to help them.”
Letter: Health care is at a tipping point
“My story hardly registers on the health care scale of misery. Others have experienced far worse, losing their life savings for not being ‘in network.'”
Cold Turkey
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Holiday Lights
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: Demand that your reps hold Trump accountable
“Please call your Congress people and demand that they hold Trump accountable for this disaster.”
Letter: Save money by going green
“Believing in climate change is not a precondition for saving money and breathing cleaner air, especially when it is so convenient and easy to do!”
Letter: Downtown hotels should pay living wage
“As real estate prices climb and cost of living goes up and up, the only solution is to pay workers more.”
Play skewers, then unites Asheville’s left and right
“And if that isn’t enough, you’ll also get to see one of your current or former City Council members do stand-up comedy.”